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[bluflamingo]

Stolen from idyll:

Give me a character (or a pairing) from any of my fandoms (Atlantis, season9/10 SG1, Firefly, early seasons West Wing), and I'll give you three facts from my personal "fanon" for that character (or pairing).

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[idyll.livejournal.com]

Cam!

[bluflamingo.livejournal.com]

1. He doesn't like heights unless he's up in a plane of some kind. It's one of those irrational fears that hangs around no matter what you do, and it was all kinds of embarassing when he joined the Air Force. Still is, actually - Vala will never let him hear the end of the time they wound up a couple hundred feet up a tower and he refused to go near the edge.

2. He still has no idea, two years on, whether he would have stuck it out with the SGC if SG-1 hadn't come back. He's pretty sure he wouldn't have been able to go back to a regular Air Force posting, but he's not sure he would have made it with a team of people as new to gate travel as him. So maybe the decision would never have had to be made. He prefers not to think about that, but it makes him extra grateful for them all.

3. He's known Sam Carter for so long that everyone assumes they slept together at some point - they never have. It's not because they don't want to (although they've been friends so long now that they really don't) or that they think it will mess up a good friendship (they're way past that point now). It's because, two months after they met, Sam had too much to drink and sighed and said that she wondered if anyone would ever understand how she felt, a scientist and a girl and a pilot. Cam's pretty sure she'll never trust him to try to understand if he sleeps with her, and he wants her to trust him, much more than he wants anything else from her. Except possibly for her to come back from Atlantis again.

[libel.livejournal.com]

Josh Lyman

[bluflamingo.livejournal.com]

1. He still remembers the first day when he woke up and his first thought wasn't of his sister. Actually, he remembers it better than he remembers a lot of things about her, and he's not sure what that means.

2. He's never ever said it, not to anyone, but he was glad when Lisa and Sam broke off the engagement, even though Sam was obviously heart-broken. Some of the reasons weren't even anything to do with wanting Sam to himself.

3. He knows he's never going to work with anyone better than Leo McGarry ever again. Oddly, it's kind of reassuring; at least he doesn't have to keep looking. He'd like to figure out how to stop measuring them all against Leo and President Bartlet though.

[libel.livejournal.com]

3 is so perfect.

[bluflamingo.livejournal.com]

I'm glad - I've never really given Josh a lot of thought before.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_la_la_la/]

Lorne, please :)

[bluflamingo.livejournal.com]

1. Every time they get Colonel Sheppard back from a near-death experience off-world, he breathes a sigh of relief. This isn't exactly news - everyone on Atlantis does. What is a secret is that a tiny part of the relief is because he really, really doesn't want the Colonel's job, and he's pretty sure that he'll get it if the Colonel isn't around to do it. The rest of the relief is entirely because he really doesn't want to lose Sheppard, for reasons having absolutely nothing to do with his job.

2. Lorne and Cadman have been friends since Lorne got back from the planet of the mines and the Unas, when she helped him sneak out of the infirmary. He really misses having her on Atlantis. The only thing he doesn't miss is her tendency to tell him all the details of her love life, and the only reason he doesn't miss this is that she still emails to tell him, every week.

3. He's going to miss Teyla when she goes back to Sheppard's team. She's nice to have around, and he likes that there's someone who lets him look after them, a little bit (until she notices, anyway) - his own team are everything he could want from a team, but some days he really wishes they'd dial down the over-protective Marine stuff, just for five minutes. It's kind of sweet, but, God, it makes him feel totally incapable some days.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_la_la_la/]

<3!

I love your fanon for Lorne.

#1 - yes, so true!
#2 - hee - omg, Cadman totally seems like someone who'd want to get Lorne to blush by telling him TMI about her love life.
#3 - would love to see some of the Lorne-team interactions. But yes, Lorne and Teyla have had some great interaction lately.

[bluflamingo.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Cadman definitely gets a perverse thrill out of making Lorne blush by telling him things she knows he doesn't want to know (though partly she does it because she knows he likes that she trusts him that much).

would love to see some of the Lorne-team interactions

In canon, I'd love it if they'd just give them *names*

[misskatieleigh.livejournal.com]

John/Cam

[bluflamingo.livejournal.com]

1. They've been in and out of each others' lives for so long that they actually have to work back through their service records to remember when and where they met. When they ran into each other at the SGC for the first time (both in their dress uniforms, Cam for his first day, John for his promotion), it was like the ultimate freaky coincidence (seriously, a couple of days later, and they would have completely missed each other). John didn't find out for another six months that Cam was the injured 302 pilot everyone talked about when he first got to the SGC.

2. The handful of people who know about their relationship think it's weird that neither of them are bothered by the fact that they live in two different galaxies; John and Cam think it's weird that everyone else is so bothered by it. "Seriously," John says, more than once, "our friends watch too many romantic comedies." One of these days, one or both of them will be injured out of the service; they'll have plenty of time to play house when they're not busy saving the world.

3. They both agree that life would be, in many ways, a lot easier if the military stopped caring about who they sleep with. That said, they've both gotten pretty good at keeping it secret and, honestly, neither of them are all that sure they'd want people to know. At least this way, they don't usually find out that the other one nearly died until he's already recovering and it's too late to worry. Considering how the number of times something bad happens, they'd probably both be dead from the stress within a couple of months if someone felt the need to tell them every time it happened.

[misskatieleigh.livejournal.com]

♥

I like your fanon, yes.

[bluflamingo.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I love the idea of their friends being all, "But - sex! and you like him! and regular sex!" while John or Cam stares at the person and goes, "well, yes, but saving the world, so, you know..." I justhaven't figured out a way to work it into a fic yet :)

[misskatieleigh.livejournal.com]

I'm certain that you will though. Love is grand, but there's a reason these two joined the military - setting aside their desire to fly. Its part of their character for them to want to save lives - to save the world, two galaxies - and to strip that away for sex wouldn't make all that much sense to them at this point. I see them making sacrifices of their careers at some point, but only once they feel that the threat of the wraith/ori/villian of the week was gone. On the other hand, there is the thought that they should live in the moment somewhat, that they could die at any time - which is why they take what they can when they can.

[bluflamingo.livejournal.com]

Yes, exactly! I think there would definitely come a point where one or other of them would say, ok, enough, and then they'd have to worry about being together (like in Thin Thread Left, where John loses his team and they defeat the Wraith, and that's the point where he can go do something else), but they're both very 'duty and honor'. As you say, it wouldn't make a lot of sense for their characters for them to give it up without something to push them.

[bruinsfan.livejournal.com]

Here's a curveball for you: Major Lorne & Dr. Simpson.

Not necessarily as a romantic pairing, but surely being two grumpy yet relentlessly capable second stringers in Atlantis they've met and had something to talk about at some point.

[bluflamingo.livejournal.com]

Hmm, that is a bit of a curveball. Okay...

1. It takes Lorne three months on Atlantis to meet all of the scientists, even though he's making an effort to do it, and Dr Simpson is one of the last. He's looking for Dr Zelenka, and he stops in the open doorway to the lab when he hears McKay yelling. Dr Simpson is standing in front of a whiteboard, facing Lorne, with her back to McKay, and though he's clearly berating her, she's rolling her eyes and ignoring him. She looks so much like Lorne feels when Sheppard's having one of his I'm-too-stupid-for-the-Air-Force moments that he can't help grinning, especially when she grins back.

2. When Colonel Sheppard starts up a new programme of city exploration, Jeanette asks to be put on a team. She gets assigned to Lieutenant Cadman's, one of three scientists and two marines and, not entirely surprisingly, gets chatting to the lieutenant (the moments of discovery are fantastic, but Jeanette thinks this is more because they're so few and far between). They get on well enough that Jeanette starts having dinner with Laura a couple of times a week, and after a while, Major Lorne starts dropping by as well. It's been a while since Jeanette felt like she belonged as much as she does with the two of them.

3. During Lorne's first year in the city, he and Jeanette get trapped in a small space together five times, and each time, they come out rumpled and laughing. Neither of them miss the looks exchanged between the scientists, and sometimes the marines, working on getting them out. Neither of them say anything, either.

Sorry, that ended up being more tiny ficlets than fanon, but I hope it will suffice anyway :)

[bruinsfan.livejournal.com]

Hey, I am not one to look gift ficlets in the mouth, particularly when they're fun and well-written like this! Thank you kindly.

I don't know which is the more fun interpretation of that last: that they're actually carpe-ing the diem, or that they're mussing each other's hair and clothes to mess with everybody when they get out.

[bluflamingo.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you enjoyed them :)

I don't know which is the more fun interpretation of that last: that they're actually carpe-ing the diem, or that they're mussing each other's hair and clothes to mess with everybody when they get out.

No. I'm kind of torn betwen the two options as well, though the sensible part of me says they probably wouldn't want to risk being caught when someone did get the door open.